Offering to Buddhist Monks | Rural Thailand

 My second month in Thailand I've been living with a local family in the rural village of Chai Badan. From their backyard you can see the nearby Buddhist Temple entrance Wat Chai Badan Po Prasit ( วัดชัยบาดาลปอประสิทธิ์ ).

Each morning around 6am the family gives alms (offerings) of flowers and food to the monks that walk from the temple into the village that recite a blessing in return. 

The family grows a variety of flowers and food on their property, some of which include marigold, jasmine, everlasting flower, mango, papaya, basil, chives, and more! The husband tends to the garden each day watering and building new plots to plant. The wife helps harvest the fruit, vegetables, and flower buds and blooms. She makes beautiful floral arrangements that she sells every weekend at the local market where people buy for decoration or as offerings to the monks or at a Buddhist shrine.